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something i’m cooking for boostle week teeehehe

I just saw this pic on insta by a content creator who was at the Berlin s5 event and… is this… a SWINGSET??? With VINES?? IS THIS A FCKING SWINGSET IN THE UPSIDE DOWN????!!! ON A SEASON 5 EVENT?? BYLER IS SO HAPPENING AAAAAAAAAAHHHHH-

Gojo and Geto idealized each other to the point that their bond was… kind of structurally poisoned even before their split. Geto sees Gojo as a pillar of inner strength, purity, and unwavering conviction — things that Geto lacks. Geto is sensitive, can be swayed by his emotions, and cracks under extreme pressure (not to mention the dark/almost evil streak we see in him even before he cracks). Gojo sees Geto as this lovely, beautiful, sentimental idealist, and is swept off his feet by this perception of him. He’s consistently impressed by the way Geto sticks to his kind ideals (and the fact that Geto ends up not sticking to his kind ideals absolutely ruins Gojo — it ruins him even more than their split). Gojo (sort of) lacks these qualities, as he’s isolated and forced to live coldly, not afforded the luxury to care about love, feelings, or ideals. That’s a huge reason why their split is so monumental for the both of them, especially Gojo — they realize that neither was the idealized figure they imagined, and that makes them lose a part of themselves. But it’s also a huge driver of change for Gojo, and it’s why he decides to live with love and sentimental ideals, trying to create a better world for the youth and for everyone around him.

Geto is like a glass vase full of fragrant roses. Pleasant, pretty, and lovely (I keep coming back to the word “lovely” when describing him… is that telling of my interpretation? lol), but the roses will inevitably wilt, and the glass will shatter if dropped. The roses don’t wilt despite being roses, and the glass doesn’t shatter despite being glass. The roses wilt because they are roses, and the glass shatters because it is glass. Not to be excessively deterministic, but Geto carried the seeds of his own downfall — his kind, disciplined morality comes from the way he so ardently fought his own dark streak. But that fight against his predisposition, coupled with his trauma, breaks him in the end.

In contrast, Gojo actually has a strong predisposition for moral and philosophical thought; he just never got a chance to let it flourish. That’s why he’s so attracted to Geto, at least in part. Gojo has a strong intuitive grasp of Geto’s principles, but Geto is the one who can put it into words. And I think, when Gojo gives his rebuttals about how the strong should be able to live disregarding the weak, it’s more like he’s being a teenage dick, playing the devil’s advocate, and, in some strange way, trying to challenge the ideas about strength and power that he grew up with by trying to argue them ad absurdum.

And ultimately, Gojo does not crumble when Geto leaves. He easily could have — I mean, after Geto leaves, he’s left to deal with the fallout of that all by himself. And many others would have collapsed at that point, but Gojo doesn’t; he chooses the right path. In the end, Gojo's strength comes from within. Not from his power, and not from Geto.